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Hello, About 2 weeks back, I was suffering some very nasty attacks. 2 to 3 a day each lasting an hour reaching extremely high pain levels. I happened to speak to a friend who is a homeopathy doctor. I was surprised to hear from him that cluster headaches were curable in homeopathy. He spoke to me for an hour on everything except my attacks including emotional issues that I may have had in the past. He sounded very confident. He gave me some meds. Next day onwards my pain levels came down. 3 days later my attacks became less frequent. 2 weeks into the treatment, my attacks have almost stopped. I get an odd minor attack once in a while but no full blown attack now. I know fully well that CH is never going to go away. But I am pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of homeopathy in treating CH. I will continue the meds and report feedback here. Pain free wishes to all. Har Har Mahadev Vipul

Jeebs, the Epi proved to be a provoker of Hell for me. Repeatedly! I cut my thumb with Machete cutting corn. It was sewed up no problem. But the 'hand specialist' was an idiot and it took 4 surgeries to fix the mess that he made. Anyhoo, I woke from surgery and was fine. No biggie actually. But, he pumped me full of epi. The hospital was 2 hours from home and they gave me no meds as it was supposed to stay numb for 4-12 hours post surgery. That was not true for me. It came alive in less than an hour and I had no pain meds and a lot of pain. I had 10 hits in the following 24 hours. My personal record. It was hell night. No cycle started though. It was summer and I was not in my normal cycle time just yet. The next trip to that place and they were told that it would be a general and NO epi ever again. I had no hits. When I had the great colonoscopy done, I told that one that I might need O2 post even though it was just sedation. She asked how I wanted it? 15LPM and a non-rebreather for 5 minutes and then 5 minutes at 5LPM. Well, they sedated me and I got a hit. So, they did full anesthesia at that point as I was thrashing allover according to them. I hit the recovery room, woke immediately and sat up - her cue on the O2! Cleared it right up and no more issue with that one. They were very shocked that I woke immediately. They had just told my husband that it would be over to an hour. Nope, she made a bat turn and let him know that I was up and almost ready to go. Now, when I go the THAT hospital, we have a procedure in place and my chart is noted for NO EPI. They also have O2 waiting when I wake. I can see the tank!! I made a believer out of that doctor. When the gallbladder came out, the O2 was right there for me. But, no epi, so no hit! I refuse to have dental work done during my 'normal' cycle months! My dentist won't work without epi. Yes, it shrinks the blood vessels to reduce the bleeding. It also provides better deadening of the area, so the dentist is happy with that and won't work without it. Were it possible, I would change dentists to get nitrous!! That would be the bomb!!!

...'twarnt no "implication"...they wouldn't give me pants, they don't put pockets in those shorty gowns, and my ass was hanging out... ....sorry if we're scaring you bejeeber, but note that for me, out of hundreds of cycles, a weirdly triggered hit (e.g. epi, zinc welding) has never started a new one...

A new expression to me, too, but worth remembering, although I'll have to work hard to fabricate an occasion when I'll get to use it.

Sorry you are having such a rough go with the CH Eli, but glad that some of the best, most qualified advisors possible have been weighing in here so far. From this it sounds like if you were to keep up with the alternative therapy (busting?) every couple months, you could go into some genuinely long term remission, as many before you have? Although personally of the male gender, I have long suspected that the refusal of so many doctors to diagnose females with CH has been based on a self perpetuating medical myth that it is so much more prevalent in males. If you are continuing to use imitrex, one strategy you could consider would be to have a lower dose syringe pre-loaded and ready to go so there wouldn't be any real thinking or calculating required when you need it to administer it. This would probably require being well rehearsed with exactly what you would do when the time came, and this rehearsal could be done at a time when you are not actually having an attack. I have been there and done that. Markings of (2mg) doses on the syringes, and a plan for super easy, painless subcutaneous injection in the abdomen were part of the preparation process.

Yeah, I was drinking beers and way out of cycle and I got hit hard after a dentist visit then busted it and got hit hard again after the next visit five weeks later. They were both extractions of molars and had tons of drugs put into my jaw. I now ask for low epi since they love the stuff for blood control and don't really want to go without it.